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Alexander McCall Smith
McCall Smith, A: Pavilion in the Clouds

A brand new stand-alone novel from Alexander McCall Smith, The Pavilion in the Clouds is a beautifully evocative story, set mostly in 1930s Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). This atmospheric novel, set in …

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Alexander McCall Smith
Pianos and Flowers

In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are im…

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Alexander McCall Smith
The Isle of Good Karma

As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. It's never too late to make a change. Single and approaching middle age, Maeve Macdonald feels she has reached a point at which, if she doesn't do something drasti…

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Alexander McCall Smith
The Prime of Bertie Pollock

To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from. Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own pa…

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Alexander McCall Smith
The Private Side of Friendship

Featured on BBC Radio 4's Take Four BooksSix friends. One city. The time of their lives. It's 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn't seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon s…

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Val McDermid, Jo Sharp
This Door of the Seas

The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future. 'A powerfully clear account . . . Highly recommended for anyone interested in …

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Alan Mckirdy, John Gordon, Roger Crofts
Land of Mountain and Flood

Scotland's mountains, lochs, islands, and coasts reflect a long geological history shaped by volcanism, continents, and ice.This is the complete story of Scotland's remarkable landscape.Scotland is justly…

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Alistair Moffat
Bannockburn

The 1314 battle near Bannock Burn, where spearmen routed English forces, secured Scotland's independence and destiny.Relive the battle for a nation.As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced…

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Alistair Moffat
Glasgow: A New History

Glasgow's new history traces how the Clyde shaped a vibrant city from prehistory to empire and reinvention.Scotland's largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in…

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Alistair Moffat
St Andrews: A New History

As the spiritual centre of Scotland, the crucible of the Reformation, the site of the oldest university in the country, the story of this small town on the coast of Fife is the story of the nation. Its un…

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Alistair Moffat
To See Ourselves

Post-war Scotland from the 1950s to today reveals sweeping change through housing, healthcare, media, politics.A relatable and enjoyable march through the decades' - Sunday PostSince 1945 the world has ch…

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Eilidh Muldoon
My First Scottish 1 2 3

A colorful counting journey from one to ten with Scottish animals, birds, and sea creatures for young readers.My First Scottish 1 2 3 is a colourful counting book. Eilidh Muldoon's distinctive illustratio…

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Eilidh Muldoon
My First Scottish A B C

Follow a group of animals as they journey through Scotland's alphabet from A to Z, spotting letters everywhere.Eilidh Muldoon brings the alphabet colourfully to life in this adventure story from A to Z.Fo…

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Holger Nehring, Michael Penman, Tom Turpie
Heart of Scotland

From pre-Roman times, Stirling was seen as a strategic location because of its position at the crossing of the river Forth. In many accounts it appears as the key link between Britain, Scotland and the wo…

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David O'Donnell
The Heydrich Legacy

In 1942, a police chief inspector investigates assassination secrets, triggering a deadly plot and a Europe-wide battle of wits.The new World War II thriller from the author of The Berlin Gambit.In 1942 P…

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Richard D. Oram
David I

David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom's greates…

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Richard D. Oram
Where Wind and Water Cleave

Scotland's environmental history traces how retreating ice and shifting climate, weather, disease, and human action reshaped land, waters, and life.Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland's fearsome en…

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Agnes Owens
A Working Mother

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

A Working Mother is a wildly entertaining cautionary tale: while Betty's husband, Adam, broods and drinks (to be matched at times by Betty, just to be sociable) she flirts with their best friend Brendan a…

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Agnes Owens
Bad Attitudes

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Bad Attitudes is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This novella boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty councillor and a new housing…

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Agnes Owens
For the Love of Willie

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Peggy's wartime romance unfolds through a hopeful, compassionate lens confronting teenage dilemmas.Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the menta…

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